The American judicial tradition : profiles of leading American judges / G. Edward White.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- John Marshall and the genesis of the tradition
- Kent, Story, and Shaw : the judicial function and property rights
- Roger Taney and the limits of judicial power
- Political ideologies, professional norms, and the state judiciary in the late nineteenth century : Cooley and Doe
- John Marshall Harlan I : the precursor
- The tradition at the close of the nineteenth century
- Holmes, Brandeis, and the origins of judicial liberalism
- Hughes and Stone : ironies of the chief justiceship
- Personal versus impersonal judging : the dilemmas of Robert Jackson
- Cardozo, learned Hand, and Frank : the dialectic of freedom and constraint
- Rationality and intuition in the process of judging : Roger Traynor
- The mosaic of the Warren Court : Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan
- The anti-judge : William O. Douglas and the ambiguities of individuality
- The Burger Court and the idea of "transition" in the American judicial tradition
- The unexpectedness of the Rehnquist Court
- The tradition and the future : a summary
- Appendix : chronology of judicial service.